Chemistry

Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Switzerland
Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1913).
Willard Libbi
Willard Libbi
USA
American physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1960.
Sergey Reformatskiy
Sergey Reformatskiy
Russia
Soviet organic chemist, since 1928 Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Robert Robinson
Robert Robinson
Great Britain
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1947
Dudley Robert Herschbach
Dudley Robert Herschbach
USA
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986 (together with Y. T. Li and D. Polanyi).
Paul Flory
Paul Flory
USA
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974
Artury Wirtanen
Artury Wirtanen
Finland
Chemist
Nicholas Leblanc
Nicholas Leblanc
France
Chemist
Heinrich Hlasiwetz
Heinrich Hlasiwetz
Austria
Austrian chemist
Boris Byzov
Boris Byzov
Russian chemist
Germaine Cellier
Germaine Cellier
France
French perfumer
Carl Franklin Rehnborg
Carl Franklin Rehnborg
USA
American chemist and entrepreneur
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Germany
German chemist
David MacMillan
David MacMillan
British-American organic chemist
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann
USA
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981, jointly with Kenichi Fukui
Iren Joliot-Curie
Iren Joliot-Curie
France
Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui
Japan
Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry "for their development of the theory of chemical reactions" together with Roald Hofmann.
Xenophon Kocheshkov
Xenophon Kocheshkov
Soviet organic chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Tadeusz Reichstein
Tadeusz Reichstein
Poland
Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950
Hans Fischer
Hans Fischer
Germany
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1930.
Ge Hong
Ge Hong
China
Chinese Taoist scholar and alchemist, famous for his encyclopedic treatises
Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager
USA
Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968.
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Germany
German physicist and chemist
Henry J. Eyring
Henry J. Eyring
USA
Mexican-American chemist
Konstantin Krasusky
Konstantin Krasusky
Russian chemist
Vladimir Kistyakovsky
Vladimir Kistyakovsky
Russian and Soviet physical chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Constantin Fahlberg
Constantin Fahlberg
Germany
German chemist, inventor of saccharin.
Viktor Grignard
Viktor Grignard
France
Chemist
Joseph Achille Le Bel
Joseph Achille Le Bel
France
French chemist
Yaroslav Geyerovskiy
Yaroslav Geyerovskiy
Chemist, founder of polarography, Nobel Prize (1959)
Gerhard Shrader
Gerhard Shrader
Germany
German chemist.
Otto Wallah
Otto Wallah
Germany
Chemist
Julius Lothar Meyer
Julius Lothar Meyer
Germany
German chemist
Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger
Germany
German chemist, awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger
Great Britain
English biochemist, the only scientist to twice win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Adolf Windaus
Adolf Windaus
Germany
Chemist
Wendell Meredith Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley
USA
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, 1946, (together with D. Sumner and D. Northrop) “for the preparation of pure enzymes and viral proteins.”
Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner
Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner
Germany
German chemist
Yuriy Buslaev
Yuriy Buslaev
Russia
Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials
Ilmar Koppel
Ilmar Koppel
Estonia
Estonian and Soviet chemist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann
Switzerland
Swiss chemist
George Wittig
George Wittig
Germany
German organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry (1979, together with G. C. Brown).
Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola
Germany
German scientist, chemist, considered one of the fathers of mineralogy.
Valeriy Legasov
Valeriy Legasov
Soviet inorganic chemist
Mario J. Molina
Mario J. Molina
USA
American and Mexican chemist
Viktor Goldshmidt
Viktor Goldshmidt
Germany
Chemist and geologist, one of the founders of geochemistry and crystal chemistry.
Hermann Emil Fischer
Hermann Emil Fischer
Germany
German organic chemist
Charles Gerhardt
Charles Gerhardt
France
Alsatian chemist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris (1856).
Claude Louis Berthollet
Claude Louis Berthollet
France
French chemist.
Kuzma Andrianov
Kuzma Andrianov
Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences